I'm a quite late to the party but yeah, here's my two cents and then some.
TL;WR: I don't like the designs and I think we should have the option to choose. I made cards (see below).
I've know I've probably been wasting my train journeys this week lol, but at least I can say I done all I possibly could. I'm sorry, but I've never liked the designs introduced in recent updates, to the point that when I saw comments to produce our own, I decided to do just that. I finally finished my attempt and I know I haven't created great work, but I'm no designer or artist despite what I may or may not have told people on the train who asked me what I was doing...
The point I wanted to make was to use a more distinct colour palette and show that there's a more minimalist approach to adding detail to the older, perfectly acceptable cards. Some of the current 'new card' artwork is good, but the horribly drawn cartoon people in most of the images are painfully irritating to look at; I really wish I didn't hate it but unfortunately I do, and I'm far from the only one. Some of them don't even make sense. I'm not saying to scrap the artwork that's been paid for. There is clearly a small minority who
do like it. However a popular opinion has been to let us choose our own cards. Please make this an account setting, and if you wish to include my designs below too, please, be my guest. Though if that's ever a strong possibility, I do think there's still considerable room for improvement. I didn't give them much time or thought when I set out. Just whatever came to mind. That's the easy bit said; next comes the hard truth.
Fizzer, you may not wish to spend time developing the option to choose a card design. All I can say to that is, not long ago, every single idea on uservoice seemed to take lower priority than this. Why should this change, when only a small minority is content with the changes? It's not really sufficient enough to move on. I wonder about if you had instead previewed the cards for us and then heard the responses against it; I like to believe you wouldn't have updated them without also bringing us the option to let us choose our preferred design. Or you'd at least have gone back to the designer with feedback. I'm going to speculate quite strongly that this update upset far more people than it helped. I doubt the old cards were deterring anyone. It didn't need to be disturbed, only it was, but if we are given this option we can at least walk away with no downside, and we can all
happily move on to the updates we want to see. Hopefully, uservoice still has a greater part to play in that than it has as of late.
Sorry if it reads like a rant; it's hard to convey the tone but I'm trying to be helpful and constructive rather than just spew hate. I look forward to a response to this repeatedly suggested request, but I personally will not be creating a uservoice suggestion. There are enough ideas there as it is, and as far as I'm concerned, this update is already in motion; it just hasn't been finished yet. There's no rush, but it would be nice to see this implemented inside of a month or two.
P.S. Whilst I was at it, I also redesigned the commanders. It was easy enough and I also didn't have much love for the pixelated man in... sunglasses??
N.B. Designed with vector graphics, and so fully editable. In theory the image could be any size, but was sized to fit the forum. If you wish, take a closer look here:
http://s15.postimg.org/6p84uivw9/WL_Designs_Large.png
P.P.S. Abandon is probably best, but surely there's a name that is clearer and less of a mouthful than Emergency Blockade? Instant blockade?? If it's ok to be as long as Em-er-gen-cy Blockade, then Pri-o-ri-ty Blockade is just as long but is a thousand times clearer and more relevant. That's just one last thing to maybe consider.
